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InterGalactic Medicine Show Awards Anthology, Vol I
InterGalactic Medicine Show Awards Anthology Vol I Author:Orson Scott Card (Editor), Edmund R. Schubert (Editor) In 2005, Orson Scott Card, famed author of the science fiction classic Ender's Game, founded (and briefly edited) an on-line magazine called The Intergalactic Medicine Show. InterGalactic Awards Anthology Vol. I is a collection of stories spotlighting the winners of the magazine's readers' poll for best artwork... more » and best short fiction. Also includes other popular stories from the magazine's six year run, as well as a new introduction by Peter S. Beagle. This anthology has humor, horror, science fiction and fantasy...an excellent mix.
Contents:
Trinity County, CA / Peter S. Beagle: set in an alternate northern California where law enforcement must deal not only with pot farms and meth labs but also with illicit breeders of fire-breathing dragons.
Sister Jasmine Brings the Pain / Van Carr: a parody of post-apocolyptic SF.
The American / Bruce Worden: a future Europe dominated by a United States which has become both all-powerful and inscrutable to outsiders.
The Ghost of a Girl Who Never Lived / Keffy R.M. Kehrl: depicts the pain and philosophical implications of biotechnology.
Silent as Dust / James Maxey: a ghostless haunted-house story.
The End-of-the World Pool / Scott M. Roberts: horror and childhood friendships.
Beautiful Winter / Eugie Foster: a re-telling of a Russian folk tale.
The Never Never Wizard of Appachicola / Jason Sanford: African-American voodoo folklore in the space age.
Blood and Water / Althea Kontis: a contemporary mermaid myth.
Mean Spirited / Edmund R. Schubert: semi-funny semi-horrifying story of love gone bad.
A Heretic by Degrees / Marie Brennan: high fantasy...
Horus Ascending / Aliette de Bodard: tale from the point of view of a sentient Artifical Intelligence.
The Robot Sorceror / Eric James Stone: tale of a sentient AI.
Aim for the Stars / Tom Pendergrass: a derelict in a homeless shelter may or may not possess the greatest scientific secret of all time.